On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Alan Bromborsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:28 PM, mabshoff
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 30, 3:15 pm, Alan Bromborsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> mabshoff wrote:
>>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>  galgebra_doc.tgz
>>>>>> 4058KViewDownload
>>>>>>
>>>>> Not to be pissy here, but you just send a 4MB archive to the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>> Should I have sent it directly to Ondrej?
>>>>
>>> Well, Ondrej wrote: "That's quite big --- could you post it somewhere?
>>> I'll see if it can be made smaller."
>>>
>>> I believe what you send wasn't compressed (I never tried, I just
>>> deleted the message), but it also seems unneeded since the final
>>> documentation should be trivially generated from the ReST text you
>>> wrote (unless I am getting something completely wrong) and I doubt
>>> that is 4MB compressed ;).
>>>
>>
>> It's not a good idea to post big attachements to the list, because it
>> gets sent to each of us into our mailboxes. Next time, please post it
>> somewhere, for example into the files section here:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/files
>>
>> as to the docs itself, it looks great! For example the Dirac equation,
>> it looks very interesting. Thanks very much. It seems to me that just
>> the .rst/.tex files are needed, so it should be pretty small. If you
>> have time, try to make it as a regular patch to the sympy git
>> repository. If not, I'll try to do it today or tomorrow.
>>
>> Ondrej
>>
>> >
>>
>>
> Now I know and will do it that way.  The question I have is in modifying
> documentation
> that I would send.  I don't really know rst.  I use a program to convert
> latex (using the python
> documentation latex styles files) to rst.  I don't know how to go back
> to latex in the proper
> format.  Thus if someone modifies the .rst file I send I am up the creek
> because I don't have
> the equivalent modified file in latex.  Also please note that the
> conf.py file in the archive is
> critical since it contains all the latex math macros required.  I guess
> I am just a old latex fogey.
> If no one but me generates the documentation for GAsympy and latex_ex
> then there is no problem, but
> I don't want to limit input that way.

I think we should have just one input format, e.g. if we figure how to
convert rst to latex, would it be fine with you? E.g. we could have
everything in .rst and you can always convert it to latex for you if
you want.

Ondrej

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